-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Firefox Question ...

It's a valid concern and she is to be praised for her thoughtfulness. 
Little does she realize yet that you're probably more likely to blow up the 
system than she is.      ;^)


If you REALLY want to keep thing separate, consider setting up a dual-boot 
using the same OS for both installs.  You'd need to have the first OS on a 
Primary/Active partition (which it already is), but limit the space to what 
it needs plus future growing room.  Since I have all of my non-OS stuff on 
other drives, I only need about a 20GB partition for WinXP or 25GB for 
Vista.  If I were to set it up FOR you, I'd likely go with 30 & 35GB.  If 
using 64-bit versions, add another 10GB to each.  You could then set up 
additional partitions for holding a second OS (same sizes as above) as well 
as keeping your downloads, documents, etc. separate from the OS partitions. 
Done right, it allows you the freedom to no longer worry about something 
blowing up one of the OSs.  If one does have an issue, boot into the other, 
make a complete copy of the offending one, wipe it (format the entire 
partition if the bad OS is on the D drive, but manually delete the folders 
if it's on the C drive to preserve the boot files).  Complete time to 
recover from a blown OS is now down to about an hour, plus the time it takes 
to reinstall your favorite apps.  Details and hand holding are available if 
you want to consider this idea for your situation.


And now to the answer to the question you actually asked.  lol

    Firefox follows my advice above in that it puts its operating files in 
one place (Program Files), but stores all user settings, bookmarks, 
passwords, browser themes, tab sessions, extensions, etc. to a separate 
location (Documents & Settings) to make it incredibly easy to back up and 
recover in case of a problem.  Since she'll have her own section of the 
system to play in (either as a separate username or in a second OS on the D 
drive), all you need to do is to Copy her entire Profile folder over to your 
machine (in the right place - see below) and then install Firefox.  Firefox 
will automatically look to see if there's an existing Profile and use it if 
found.  Be sure to initially install the same version of Firefox (2.x OR 
3.x) that she was using on her system since Firefox 3.x makes changes to 
some of the 2.x files and would be confused if it was asked to use an 
unconverted Firefox 2.x Profile.  Ask me to explain further if you're not 
sure what I'm talking about here.

    To get her profile off of her system, you'll first have to find & 
identify it.  The location of Firefox Profiles is:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application 
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\a1b2c3d4.default, where "a1b2c3d4" is a string 
of random numbers & letters.

    You'll need to Copy the entire Mozilla master folder in order to get all 
of the necessary files to make this work.  In other words, just make a copy 
of the C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla folder 
and everything that's in it.  Copy that to the same place in her new Docs & 
Settings area BEFORE you install Firefox.  All of her custom settings, 
extensions, themes, etc. will be right there for her when the browser is 
run.

Peace,
Gman

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ""*Çõ$mï¢*"" <Cosmic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:35 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Firefox Question ...


>
> Yeppers .. Exactly .. Since she is concerned about "messing" up my PC lOl 

---------------------------------------------------------------
Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything 
below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary.

To unsubscribe or change your email settings:
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk

To access our Archives:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/
http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/

To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to:
pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

To join the PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to:
pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---------------------------------------------------------------

Other related posts: